Appraisal services for home sellers - Ryan Carter Appraisals

Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Ryan Carter Appraisals will ensure you get it right.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional appraisal. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays in the long run! Unless a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to get a handle on real estate market forces.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you have invested in your home, or the amount you need to get for it. Instead, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on the true market value of your home.

Going to sell your home yourself?

Quite a few KY homeowners are choosing to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, quickly and to get the most you can, what you need is a expert appraiser. The best thing to have is objective opinions, it can be very difficult to be objective about your own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will inform you of what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

Not only can getting a professional appraisal help you set a astute asking price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Be a very beneficial bargaining tool while speaking with a potential buyer
Impress buyers with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
Alert you of problems and get rid of any last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
Help lower the chances of unrevealed problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

It can be surprising to people when they find out the value of their home is quite a bit more than they thought. So investing in an appraisal provided the data to support a sale for several thousand more than they originally expected. Others have an an overestimated opinion of their home's value, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to set a more reasonable price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of waiting on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

Get a professional value opinion before listing

You might have a very skilled agent but it's definitely a good idea to get an unbiased second opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. Let Ryan Carter Appraisals help. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have a precise writeup of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the latest and similar comparable sales which we typically refer to as "comps" in the appraisal industry.

Ryan Carter Appraisals also offer general consulting

Not wanting to get a full appraisal but are looking for information about how real estate is doing in your area? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you require some help analyzing local property and sales data. We can help solve your real estate quandaries with services especially designed for customers with your real estate needs.

If your wondering what you can expect from us when you order an appraisal just take a look....

We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a prompt response: We will give you personalized information for your particular appraisal need. Just let us know your situation and we will make suggestions.
Quick turnaround time: Usually one week or less from the date the request is received, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
Appraisal and consulting report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed a large amount of assignments, and we've learned that in the art of real estateconsulting and appraising there isn't a typical or standard, "generic" report. We provide quite a few different of report types, and are experienced at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
Any follow up questions? You can expect a quick follow-up from Ryan Carter Appraisals: Reports we write are clearly written, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any questions regarding your appraisal, after you've read through the report, just give us a call or email us!